The Vast Power of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
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The Vast Power of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

The real needs of humanity haven’t changed since Ike’s time. Whether in 1953 or 2023, more guns won’t serve the cause of peace. They won’t provide succour. They’ll only stunt and starve us, to echo the words of H.G. Wells, while imperiling the lives and futures of our children.

Peace Is Not Our Profession: The Madness of Nuclear Warfare, Alive and Well in America
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Peace Is Not Our Profession: The Madness of Nuclear Warfare, Alive and Well in America

Collectively, it seems that we may be on the verge of returning to a nightmarish past, where we lived in fear of a nuclear war that would kill us all, the tall and the small, and especially the smallest among us, our children, who really are our future.

The U.S. Military Budget as a Mushroom Cloud: Why It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon
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The U.S. Military Budget as a Mushroom Cloud: Why It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon

A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel considers a military in which the losses are all on the battlefield, and the gains are all in the Congress as well as in the military-industrial complex that continues to soar like a missile in a moment when so many other parts of this society are sinking fast.